Pedagogy Today

In this unit students build on their primary school professional experiences and supports to articulate and reflect on important questions regarding the impact of teachers' work. In particular they will reflect on students' experiences of, and learning in, primary schools by investigating personal, school-based, theoretical and socio-cultural explanations of their experiences in educational settings, including the practice principles and the high impact teaching strategies. This is a praxis inquiry unit in which students will refine their understanding of praxis and reflect upon professional experience in a primary school. It will also lead to the opportunity to develop and trial a range of teaching strategies on future placements. Students will investigate ways to seek out and apply constructive feedback from their teachers in order to improve their teaching practice and further develop their own living theories of educational practice. This unit will explore issues such as metacognition, the thinking curriculum, Inquiry based learning, evidence-based pedagogy, praxis and the evaluation of teaching practice.
Students will be learning how to create a culture of thinking based on an understanding of metacognition and its importance in developing skills in how to teach a group of students and how to evaluate the effectiveness of their practice.